Mucus stool: Introduction

The appearance of mucus in stool can be an important symptom.
It is important to determine whether it is actually mucus in the stool,
since it could be blood in stool, fat in stool, or pus in stool
or other causes of stool color changes.
Seek prompt professional medical advice about such symptoms....more »

Assessment Questionnaire: Questions your doctor may ask (and why!)

During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the
symptom: Mucus stool. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic
tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not
be performed depending on the suspected condition)
Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is
important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an
accurate diagnosis.

It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all
medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any
specialist you see.

Mucus stool: Deaths

Misdiagnosis and Mucus stool

Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms
of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be...read more »

Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea
is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance.
The digestive system contains a...read more »

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria,
but can...read more »

Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down
with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" ...read more »

Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the
more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can...read more »

Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive
conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a...read more »

How Common are these Causes of Mucus stool?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Mucus stool.
Of the 88
causes of Mucus stool that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Mucus stool:

The following list of conditions
have 'Mucus stool' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.

Select from the following alphabetical view of conditions which
include a symptom of Mucus stool or choose View All.

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